- Cognition
2016-10-28 14:18:57
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-memory-capacity
When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite cell B and repeatedly or persistently takes part in firing it, some growth process or metabolic change takes place in one or both cells such that A’s efficacy, as on of the cells firing B, is increased. (Hebb, 1949, p. 62)
Neurons that fire together wire together. (Lowell & Singer, 1992, p. 211).
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